Is it routine to check imaging during or after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer to assess for a radiographic response?

I think the issue of checking imaging studies during or after neoadjuvant is only it if will change your management. For example, if you cannot assess clinical response in the breast and axillary during neoadjuvant therapy then imaging might reveal progression, in which you case the patient is headed for breast surgery. If at end of neoadjuvant chemotherapy the clinical response is favors lumpectomy, you may want to see exactly how much the breast mass decreased in size and status of the axillar...